Helping Christians to lose faith?

[ThomM]

Sometimes I wonder if I should be openly and vocally atheist in an effort to help my family and friends to lose faith.

Any ideas?
- My mother is 70 and I doubt if she would ever lose faith, but I could be surprised. I try to pretend to believe a little bit for her sake. Her beliefs are somewhat fundamentalist and also somewhat superstitious (Eastern Orthodox)
- My brother and his family believe similarly to my mother except less strongly.
- My sister and her husband are Lutherans.

I feel bad leaving them to believe nonsense when I might be able to help them - especially my brother and sister. On the other hand, it could create a big mess.

The end of religion as we know it is already well developed - enough so that they have predicted its extinction in several major Western countries within this century. You do not have to feel bad that there are still believers - but they are few and getting fewer where it counts.

It took a while - but year after year - sciience puts another nail in the coffin of what was bible inerrancy. From a situation where the church put people to death who dared say the bible was not completely true - we have evolved to where the church admits that there are large portions of the bible that are nothing more than "stories"  - bedtime tales - and we do not have to believe them. OF course the church has no choice in that - when they are PROVEN to be wrong.

So what HAS happened was shown in a study done by the Pew Research institute - which showed that while among the old folk - there is still widespread belief - as you question younger people - that is where churches see their end. A majority of young people admitted that they do not believe - but fail to show that to prevent family problems - however they have no intention of supporting religion or religious education when more of the old folks pass.  The MAJOR problem for religion in general - and not just christianity - is two-fold.

1- The is mass disregard for the position that religion takes on the inferiority of women - and women rebel against raising their children to learn that position. That is a basis for the decay of the Muslim religion especially.
2 - But the biggest problems for the churches is that while their numbers are staying steady because of third world conversion (Some of which include things like christian voodoo) - it is the Wealth and Educated western people who essentially bankroll religion who are defecting.  The third world people do not contribute money in the way that Western people once did - so they see their MONEY support disappearing.

And without money - you get less christian education - the Catholic church has already closed more than half of all their Schools. And without christian indoctrination - you have even less christians - and the wondrous cycle continues. WE already see the MASS (Pun not intended) closing of Churches - Temples - and other places of worship ALL over the world.

So while you have a problem with some of your family still indoctrinated in the nonsense - at least you can see the light at the end of the Tunnel too!